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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Routledge
Publication date June 16, 2016
Pages 226
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781138018594
ISBN-10 1138018597
Original list price $54.95
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Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian’s ‘women plays’ in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider much more closely the conditions of the plays’ ancient productions when evaluating their ostensible themes.

Three plays are focused upon: Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, and Ecclesiazusae. All seem to speak quite eloquently to contemporary concerns about women’s rights, the value of women’s work, and the relationships between women and war, literary representation and politics.

On the one hand, Professor Taaffe tries to retrieve what an ancient Athenian audience may have l appreciated about these plays and what their central theses may have meant within that culture. On the other hand, Aristophanes is discussed from the perspective of a late twentieth-century, specifically female, reader.



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Hardcover
Book cover for 9781138018549
 
from Routledge (January 14, 2014)
9781138018549 | details & prices | 226 pages | List price $155.00
About: Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian’s ‘women plays’ in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences.
from Routledge (December 1, 1993)
9780415095143 | details & prices | 5.75 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $85.00
About: Male actors playing women in ancient Greek comedy intended to reveal their nature as actors as part of a cultural identity.
Paperback
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from Routledge (June 16, 2016)
9781138018594 | details & prices | 226 pages | List price $54.95
About: Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian’s ‘women plays’ in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences.

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